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- I am going to attend vs I am attending - English Language Usage . . .
Which of these two statements seems to be more appropriate? I am attending a meeting tomorrow I am going to attend a meeting tomorrow I am quite not sure which one to use
- Why is what will you do tomorrow evening incorrect?
" What are you doing tomorrow? " is a question that asks the listener what plans they have already made for tomorrow It is passive, and is merely asking for information from the listener " What will you do tomorrow? " is a question that asks the listener to make a decision about what to do tomorrow This question is more active
- Wait for tomorrow wait until tomorrow - English Language Learners . . .
Wait for tomorrow suggests that tomorrow will bring some important development or surprise Wait until tomorrow is a more prosaic statement that means just what it says
- causatives - I will have it done by tomorrow - English Language . . .
For instance: imagine your teacher asks when you are going to turn in an essay If you say "I will have it done by tomorrow ", he will not think you are hiring someone else to do your homework! This is a bit strange Because usually when you speak about "having something done", you mean someone else will be doing it at your direction
- tense - Have vs. Will have vs. Will be having - English Language . . .
You will definitely have a test the following morning I will be having a test tomorrow morning is continuous: in the future, the event will happen for an uncertain duration If the duration is known, for instance, the simple future is the most logical: I will have a three hour meeting on Tuesday morning
- How to ask the day - English Language Learners Stack Exchange
What's tomorrow? is the most versatile as it can mean What's the date tomorrow? What day of the week is tomorrow? What's so special about tomorrow? or What are we supposed to be doing tomorrow? I suspect that that versatility alone is what makes What's What is tomorrow? the most common That, and it's informal nature of course
- sentence construction - Today is or today *it* is? - English . . .
1 Words like "tomorrow", "today", and "yesterday" can be used as either nouns or adverbs Tomorrow is my brother's birthday makes it the noun Tomorrow, it is my brother's birthday makes it the adverb There is a subtle difference in nuance
- Is there a one-word English term for the day after tomorrow?
In German Morgen still means both morning and tomorrow; in English morrow, a variant of morning, came to be used in the latter sense The to- is probably a fossilized definite article In German, with its transparent morphology, there is a word Übermorgen that means the day after tomorrow, but English is morphologically naked
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